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Satellite networks promise wide-area 6G coverage but face two persistent barriers: blockage-induced service discontinuities and increasingly stringent spectrum coexistence across satellite layers and with terrestrial systems. Reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Zheng , Xiangyu Li , Shirui Zuo , Yu Wan , Bodong Shang , Wenpeng Jing , Qingqing Wu

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Downlink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems are considered with far-field, near-field, and hybrid-far-near-field channels. According to the angular or distance information contained in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Suyu Lv , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaodong Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The increasing demand for high data rates and seamless connectivity in wireless systems has sparked significant interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and artificial intelligence-based wireless applications. RIS typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pujitha Mamillapalli , Yoghitha Ramamoorthi , Abhinav Kumar , Tomoki Murakami , Tomoaki Ogawa , Yasushi Takatori

This work focuses on the downlink of a single-cell multi-user system in which a base station (BS) equipped with $M$ antennas communicates with $K$ single-antenna users through a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) installed in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways with reconfigurable passive elements. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

In this work, we present a recent investigation on leveraging large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) as anchors for positioning in wireless communication systems. Unlike existing approaches, we explicitly address the uncertainty…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zeyu Huang , Markus Rupp , Stefan Schwarz

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been anticipated to be a novel cost-effective technology to improve the performance of future wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate a practical RIS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jintao Wang , Shiqi Gong , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma

A double self-sustainable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assisted multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is investigated. Two RISs are equipped with energy harvesting circuit to achieve self-sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ji Wang , Suhong Luo , Yixuan Li , Wenwu Xie , Xingwang Li , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this letter, we investigate the design of multiple reconfigurable intelligent sensing surfaces (RISSs) that enhance both communication and sensing tasks. An RISS incorporates additional active elements tailored to improve sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Cheng Luo , Jie Hu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Bo Lei

This paper considers the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communications, where an RIS is used to assist the base station (BS) for serving multiple users. The RIS consisting of passive reflecting elements can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yu-Tse Wu , Kuang-Hao Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are passive controllable arrays of small reflectors that direct electromagnetic energy towards or away from the target nodes, thereby allowing better management of signals and interference in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Bharath Shamasundar , Negar Daryanavardan , Aria Nosratinia

This letter investigates the performance of emerging wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an FRIS consists of…

Large intelligent surface (LIS) has recently emerged as a potential low-cost solution to reshape the wireless propagation environment for improving the spectral efficiency. In this paper, we consider a downlink millimeter-wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Linglong Dai , Hongbin Li

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is promising for future 6G wireless communications. However, the increased number of RIS elements results in the high overhead for channel acquisition and the non-negligible power consumption.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ruochen Su , Linglong Dai , Jingbo Tan , Mo Hao , Richard MacKenzie

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) bring various benefits to the current and upcoming wireless networks, including enhanced spectrum and energy efficiency, soft handover, transmission reliability, and even localization accuracy.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Arthur S. de Sena , Yu Tian , Merouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently gained significant interest as an emerging technology for future wireless networks. This paper studies an RIS-assisted propagation environment, where a single-antenna source transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Trinh Van Chien , Lam Thanh Tu , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Hieu Van Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten